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where there is the least
chance of my being snatched
from the death I seek.’
Wollstonecraft survived,
returned to her writing career
and two years later married
William Godwin, dying as a
result of childbirth in 1797.
How desperate she must have
been, and how ideal the
Thames would have seemed
as a place to end it all for
someone who couldn’t swim.
But as is often the case in

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